[Pkg-cups-devel] how to clean off dummy packages?

[Martin Pitt]

Hi,

jidanni at jidanni.org [2008-06-12  3:57 +0800]:
> Say, how do the pros clean up those dummy packages lying around their system?
> [...]
> # apt-get purge libcupsys2
> ...  50 to remove
> It wanted to take 50 packages along with it... no dummy!

That's because a lot of packages are still depending on the old names
and need to be migrated (see [1]). So they will become real 'dummy'
packages eventually.

Martin

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/06/msg00277.html

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